December 14 2022
 
Good morning from Washington, where taxpayers finance a record-high bailout of a Teamsters union. Rachel Greszler has hair-raising details. In Texas, school officials tell a mom to pay up to find out what happened to her bullied son. Tony Kinnett gets the story. On the podcast, our Virginia Allen and Tyler O’Neil discuss the unusual downfall of a gender-fluid Energy Department official. Plus: Katrina Trinko on the silencing of nonconforming women, and Mary Margaret Olohan on a senator’s beef with the Pentagon as well as Biden’s celebration of trampled religious beliefs. Ten years ago today, a 20-year-old fatally shoots 20 first graders and six employees  at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, using firearms owned by his mother, whom he had killed at home.
 
 
 
ANALYSIS
Texas School District Tells Mom Learning Details of Her Son Being Bullied Will Cost Her $7,000
By Tony Kinnett

A mother of a middle school student was shocked when the local school district charged her over $7,000 to disclose how many bullying reports it had received since 2015.
COMMENTARY
Feminism in 2022: Silencing Women With Politically Incorrect Views
By Katrina Trinko

Robin Keller may be one of the first persons post-Dobbs to face professional consequences for having pro-life views, but if leftists have their way, she won’t be the last.
COMMENTARY
What Taxpayers, Workers, and Retirees Need to Know About Record $35.8 Billion Bailout of This Private Union Pension
By Rachel Greszler

The Biden administration gives an appalling, no-strings-attached bailout to a private union pension plan.
ANALYSIS
Lesson Biden Administration Should Take From Sam Brinton Fiasco: Put Competence Before Identity
By Virginia Allen

Sen. Tom Cotton tweets: “Sam Brinton, let’s call it what it is: a person clearly unfit for a high-level national security role was hired because the Admin prioritizes wokeness over competence.”
NEWS
Lankford Vows to Block DOD Nominees Until Biden Admin Explains Why It Denied Military Religious Accommodations
By Mary Margaret Olohan

Thousands of service members haven’t been told whether their religious exemptions to the COVID-19 mandate will be granted—and many have been denied.
NEWS
3 Lawmakers Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Ban TikTok Nationwide
By Samantha Aschieris

Permitting TikTok in the U.S. is “like allowing the U.S.S.R. to buy up The New York Times, [The] Washington Post, and major broadcast networks during the Cold War," says Rep. Mike Gallagher.
NEWS
DeSantis Asks for Florida Grand Jury to Investigate COVID-19 Vaccines
By Brett Rowland

Gov. Ron DeSantis plans to look into the sudden deaths of people who got a COVID-19 vaccination in Florida, based on autopsy results.
NEWS
Biden Signs Radical Respect for Marriage Act Into Law, Surrounded by LGBTQ Lawmakers and Drag Queens
By Mary Margaret Olohan

“Biden’s celebratory signing of the so-called ‘Respect’ for Marriage Bill will inevitably be used to marginalize people of faith who seek to live out their beliefs,” says CatholicVote President Brian Burch.
 
     
 
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